Job 38

Treated in 13 passages across the library.

  • 38:4 Where were you when I founded the earth? Tell me, if you have such understanding. 4
  • 38:7 while the morning stars were singing together and all the sons of God raised a shout of joy? 3
  • 38:1 Then the LORD answered Job from the storm: 1
  • 38:8 Who closed the sea in behind doors when it burst out and came forth from the womb, 1
  • 38:11 and said, 'You may come as far as this and go no further; here your proud waves will halt'? 1
  • 38:16 Have you gone down to the sources of the sea or walked through the hidden depths of the ocean? 1
  • 38:19 Where is the road to the place where light lives? And darkness, where is its home, 1
  • 38:31 Can you tie together the cluster of the Pleiades or untie the belt of Orion? 1

Open Word Bible

  1. The Key Teachings of Elisabeth Elliot · Ochorus Originals

    On Asking God Why cites JOB 38:4

    …wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. JOB 38:4 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. JOB 42:5…

  2. Real Questions – Book 2 · Ochorus Originals

    Is It Okay to Be Angry with God? cites Job 38:4

    …He showed Job Himself: “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?” (Job 38:4). And somehow that was enough. Job didn’t get answers, but he got God. You may not get an…

  3. Days of Heaven Upon Earth · A. B. Simpson

    May cites Job xxxviii. 19

    …and are exhausted—Jesus Christ Himself. May 24 “Where is the way where light dwelleth” (Job xxxviii. 19). Jewels, in themselves, are valueless, unless they are brought in contact with light. If…

  4. Evening by Evening · Charles H. Spurgeon

    March cites Job 38:31

    …21 “Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?” (Job 38:31) If inclined to boast of our abilities, the grandeur of nature may soon show us how puny…

  5. Our Daily Walk · F. B. Meyer

    April cites Job 38:4

    …wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare if thou hast understanding.”— Job 38:4. IN This mighty chapter, God seems to draw near to the perplexed and stricken soul, who…

  6. Evening by Evening · Charles H. Spurgeon

    September cites Job 38:16

    …weights, and measures. September 5 “Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea?” (Job 38:16) Some things in nature must remain a mystery to the most intelligent and enterprising…

  7. The Big Story · Ochorus Originals

    Songs and Wisdom cites Job 38:1

    …Job knew he hadn’t. Finally, in chapter 38, “the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind” (Job 38:1). But God didn’t give Job the explanation he had asked for. He asked him questions…

  8. Tell Me the Story – Book 9: Songs and Wise Words · Ochorus Originals

    God Speaks from the Storm cites Job 38:4

    “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?” — Job 38:4 For a long, long time, Job sat in his sadness, with his sores and his questions. His…

  9. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    A Preliminary Discourse to Catechising cites Job 38:7

    …be unsettled in good is the sin of the devils. Jude 6. They are called, ‘morning stars,’ Job 38:7, but ‘falling stars;’ they were holy, but mutable. As the vessel is overturned with the…

  10. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    The Being of God cites Job 38:8

    …cover it with grass and corn, adorn it with flowers, enrich it with gold? God only. Job 38:8. Who but God could make the sweet music in the heavens, cause the angels to join in…

  11. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    The Eternity of God cites Job 38:7

    …by the learned, that the angels were made on the day on which the heavens were made. Job 38:7. ‘When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.’ St…

  12. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    The Power of God cites Job 38:11

    …down to the grave.’ Isa 14:12. ‘Who sets bounds to the sea, and bridles the proud waves.’ Job 38:11. God is the supreme monarch, all power is seated originally in him. ‘The powers that be…

  13. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Adam's Sin cites Job 38:7

    …angels in heaven are fully confirmed in holiness; they are called stars of the morning, Job 38:7, and they are fixed stars; but our first parents were not confirmed in their obedience…